I think pricewise all are "listed price" and could be quite a discount at the end. However seems no one really know about the S7i performance..... It is true that HiFi mag always over stated the performance of equipments, especially nowadays all equipments are getting "better and better" through their presentation..... No Good !!

I was there.
The demonstration was conducted by a reviewer of one of the local audio magazines and you will read accolades about the whole set up in due course.
I wrote detailed listening notes during the session whilst shaking my head in disapproval. If you come across the review later, please post it here or provide the link because I am interested to compare my notes with how the sound is being praised. Actually I heard them mentioned after every track, thus only having a very rough idea how praises were bestowed. Well both the reviewer and the sales person of Jadis are making a living from marketing the products and their talks about virtues only, both real and made up, are understandable.
The sound was typically bad digital in the rendition of the orchestra in the Swan Lake track. I say this from the standpoint of a user of CAS and not vinyl LP lover.
The Wadia up converts the 16/44.1 CDs to a higher sampling rate. During playback of a solo piano track, the sound was bright without lower harmonics during the first part but then it opened up towards the latter to a satisfactory level. I believe the issue relates to the resampling (perhaps a lag in the buffer or what) rather to the CD track itself having two recording characteristics.
I do not know about prices and could only guess the set up is tagged at around $800K.
The promotion theme of the day was the Zellation speakers. For such a small cone being used in it, 5 to 6 inches, the bass is really well accomplished though no match for cones of twice the diameter or larger. It is a very nice piece of furniture, well suited to the Hong Kong living room and those who are willing to fork out $230K.
If you already own a CD player with an acceptable transport, I would suggest you add an external DAC and a preamp with up converting feature, instead of trading up to the new Wadia CD player. I would not make recommendation of any brand or model because I do not wish to promote any product. I would only say chips for DACs are being improved very fast during the past couple of years and in the future, in same manner as those for computers and mobile phones. Thus no need to buy expensive ones that will be outdated in a year or two.

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Any Ching went to the Jadis Hifi demo last weekend? How was the new Wadia S7i doing?

最後修改時間: 2011-04-10 23:56:58